The Generalized Nuclear Contact and its Application to the Photoabsorption Cross-Section

TL;DR

This paper extends the nuclear contact formalism beyond zero-range models to derive relations for the nuclear photoabsorption cross-section, introducing the concept of diagonalized nuclear contacts and their potential applications.

Contribution

It generalizes the nuclear contact formalism to include full nuclear interactions and derives new relations for photoabsorption cross-sections.

Findings

Derived relations for nuclear photoabsorption cross-section

Introduced diagonalized nuclear contacts

Highlighted relevance to nuclear interaction studies

Abstract

Using the zero-range model, it was demonstrated recently that Levinger's quasi-deuteron model can be utilized to extract the nuclear neutron-proton contact. Going beyond the zero-range approximation and considering the full nuclear contact formalism, we rederive here the quasi-deuteron model for the nuclear photoabsorption cross-section and utilize it to establish relations and constrains for the general contact matrix. We also define and demonstrate the importance of the diagonalized nuclear contacts, which can be also relevant to further applications of the nuclear contacts.